Jenkins Pipeline : Passing a parameter from one job to another - jenkins-pipeline

Question

I am using Jenkins v2.73.2 and wanted to pass a String parameter from one job (TEST_JOB) to another job (BUILD_JOB) using pipeline script feature. I understand same is done as below without pipeline by installing “Parameterized Trigger Plugin” , Job 1(upstream job) > Post-Build Actions > Select ”Trigger parameterized build on other projects”
In the Downstream Job: To access this parameter we use $(Parameter name).
I want the same to be done with Pipeline . By googing i found few eaxmples and based on it i have created this way but getting below error message
java.lang.ClassCastException: class jenkins.plugins.git.GitStep.setBranch() expects class java.lang.String but received class org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsClosure2
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.coerce(DescribableModel.java:394)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.injectSetters(DescribableModel.java:338)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:261)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.StepDescriptor.newInstance(StepDescriptor.java:201)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeStep(DSL.java:205)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:150)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:108)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1435.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:157)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.GroovyInterceptor.onMethodCall(GroovyInterceptor.java:23)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.SandboxInterceptor.onMethodCall(SandboxInterceptor.java:133)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:155)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:159)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:129)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.SandboxInvoker.methodCall(SandboxInvoker.java:17)
Caused: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not instantiate {url=ssh://git#source.pmi.corp:7999/vitalpoint/vitalpoint-5.git, credentialsId=8749a398-8b66-490e-bbdc-c582d1a4156e, branch=org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsClosure2#5afc818} for GitStep(url: String, branch?: String, changelog?: boolean, credentialsId?: String, poll?: boolean)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.structs.describable.DescribableModel.instantiate(DescribableModel.java:264)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.steps.StepDescriptor.newInstance(StepDescriptor.java:201)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeStep(DSL.java:205)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.DSL.invokeMethod(DSL.java:150)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScript.invokeMethod(CpsScript.java:108)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1435.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1213)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1022)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.call(PogoMetaClassSite.java:42)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:157)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.GroovyInterceptor.onMethodCall(GroovyInterceptor.java:23)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.SandboxInterceptor.onMethodCall(SandboxInterceptor.java:133)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker$1.call(Checker.java:155)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:159)
at org.kohsuke.groovy.sandbox.impl.Checker.checkedCall(Checker.java:129)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.sandbox.SandboxInvoker.methodCall(SandboxInvoker.java:17)
at WorkflowScript.run(WorkflowScript:6)
at ___cps.transform___(Native Method)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationGroup.methodCall(ContinuationGroup.java:57)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatchOrArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:109)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.FunctionCallBlock$ContinuationImpl.fixArg(FunctionCallBlock.java:82)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1339.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.dispatch(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:55)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.CollectionLiteralBlock$ContinuationImpl.item(CollectionLiteralBlock.java:45)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1372.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ContinuationPtr$ContinuationImpl.receive(ContinuationPtr.java:72)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.impl.ClosureBlock.eval(ClosureBlock.java:46)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Next.step(Next.java:83)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:174)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable$1.call(Continuable.java:163)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport$ThreadCategoryInfo.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:122)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GroovyCategorySupport.use(GroovyCategorySupport.java:261)
at com.cloudbees.groovy.cps.Continuable.run0(Continuable.java:163)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.access$001(SandboxContinuable.java:19)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable$1.call(SandboxContinuable.java:35)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable$1.call(SandboxContinuable.java:32)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.scriptsecurity.sandbox.groovy.GroovySandbox.runInSandbox(GroovySandbox.java:108)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.SandboxContinuable.run0(SandboxContinuable.java:32)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThread.runNextChunk(CpsThread.java:174)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.run(CpsThreadGroup.java:331)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup.access$100(CpsThreadGroup.java:82)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:243)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsThreadGroup$2.call(CpsThreadGroup.java:231)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsVmExecutorService$2.call(CpsVmExecutorService.java:64)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at hudson.remoting.SingleLaneExecutorService$1.run(SingleLaneExecutorService.java:112)
at jenkins.util.ContextResettingExecutorService$1.run(ContextResettingExecutorService.java:28)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Finished: FAILURE
First Job : (TEST_JOB) -
node('Jenkins_1') {
stage ('Build') {
build job: 'BUILD_JOB', parameters: [$class: 'StringParameterValue',name: 'BRANCH_BUILD', value: "${params.BRANCH}")]
}
}
NOTE : Here, I want to pass params.BRANCH value to the second job (BUILD_JOB)
Second Job : BUILD_JOB -
node('Jenkins_1') {
deleteDir()
stage 'Checkout'
git (url: 'ssh://git#source.mmr:7000/demo.git',
credentialsId: 'XXXXXX',
branch: '${BRANCH_BUILD}')
stage 'Build'
bat 'call "C:\\Program Files \\MSBuild\\12.0\\MSBuild.exe" sample.sln /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release'
stage 'Archive'
echo 'Archive'
}

Answer 1

What is the value you are passing for the parameter? Also please try to change the name of the parameter. I am guessing that it is trying to set some internal variable of Jenkins as the parameter name is matching with it. So please rename the parameter and try again.

Answer 2

In BUILD_JOB, use
branch: "${params.BRANCH_BUILD}".
Note that I made two changes -- I used double quotes and added params as prefix to passing parameter.